Regularly Sporadic, Sporadically Regular Current Events Quiz # 16

 

Regularly Sporadic, Sporadically Regular Current Events Quiz (#16)

(Can you get a perfect score? Try all the previous quizzes, as well!)

 

1)      CBS News recently ________________?

a)       Edited an interview with Kamala Harris to make her look better

b)      Falsely represented someone as an employee of USAID who had unfairly lost her job

c)       Blamed ‘free speech’ for the Holocaust

d)      Blamed Elon Musk for the bird flu ‘epidemic’ in America

e)      a, b, and c

 

2)      Elon Musk’s DOGE recently revealed _______ of U.S. taxpayers’ money was virtually untraceable due to the Treasury Department not bothering to attach identification codes to the expenditures?

a)       $4.70

b)      $47.00

c)       $470,000,000

d)      $470,000,000,000

e)      $4,700,000,000,000

 

3)      Canadians have recently begun booing the American National Anthem at sporting events because ___________?

a)       The American president has made them feel bad by demanding they try to keep criminals and fentanyl from coming across the border between the two nations into America and killing its citizens-- or face a reciprocal tariff

b)      They had consumed far too many Molsons

c)       Extended dangerously cold weather has temporarily frozen their brains

d)      They think they can win a trade war with the United States of America

e)      What do you expect from a country that thought Nickelback was a legitimate band?

 

4)      President Trump recently decreed that, henceforth, the erstwhile ‘Gulf of Mexico’ would be known as the ‘Gulf of America,’ sending progressives into paroxysms of hatred and disbelief. What other geographical entities did Trump suggest renaming?

a)       Suggested Canada become the 51^st state

b)      Subsequently suggested calling Canada “Gay North Dakota”

c)       Openly pondered renaming Mexico “America’s Pants”

d)      Considered calling Greenland “Trumpville”

e)      Suggested renaming New Mexico “West Texas”

 

5)      Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, X-- and other companies-- recently remarked that he was particularly proud of _____________?

a)       Being tasked with retrieving the two stranded astronauts from the Space Station

b)      Impregnating yet another woman

c)       Discovering billions upon billions of dollars of fraud in the U.S. government

d)      Getting MSNBC and CNN ‘journalists’ to say “Harry Bōlz” on air

e)      Continuing to be incessantly and virulently attacked by members of the mainstream media whose combined IQs do not add up to his

 

6)      The United States has been gripped by yet another Polar Vortex, plunging nearly the entire country into dangerously cold temperatures yet again. This is an example of _______________?

a)       Global warming

b)      Man-caused climate change

c)       Natural and cyclical climate changes that have been occurring on earth since the Big Bang

d)      Trump’s hatred for the planet

e)      Settled Science

 

7)      The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was recently discovered to have spent considerable sums of taxpayer money on _____________________?

a)       Promoting America’s interests overseas

b)      A transgender comic book in Peru

c)       A DEI musical in Ireland

d)      Sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

e)      All except ‘a’

 

 

 

Correct answers: 1) e 2) e 3) a (okay, I could have added ‘f’ for ‘all of the above,’ but decided not to as a gesture of good will) 4) a 5) d 6) c 7) e